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Business and Credit Concentrations (Details)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Additional Characteristic			0		1
Canadian Customer [Member]
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales
Net sales, percentage			12.00%		17.00%
Foreign customers outside the U.S. and Canada [Member]
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales
Net sales, percentage	26.90%	36.20%	31.10%	37.70%

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Business and credit concentrations.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk as a percentage of some financial balance or benchmark, this item identifies a second characteristic of the concentration. For example, "Europe" is the second characteristic in the phrase: "net assets in Europe are 70% of total net assets".

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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